1 Walter L. Warnick, Ph.D. Director United States Department of Energy Office of Scientific & Technical Information (Operating Agent for WorldWideScience.org) Washington, D.C., United States WorldWideScience.org Accelerating Global Scientific Discovery
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Walter L. Warnick, Ph.D.Director
United States Department of Energy Office of Scientific & Technical Information
(Operating Agent for WorldWideScience.org)Washington, D.C., United States
WorldWideScience.orgAccelerating Global Scientific Discovery
In January 2007, Dr. Raymond Orbach, DOE Under Secretary for Science, and Lynne Brindley, Chief Executive of the British Library, signed a Statement of Intent to partner in the development of a searchable global science gateway.
International partnership kicks off global science gateway
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WorldWideScience.org was launched in June 2007
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Grown from 12 databases from 10 countries one year ago to 32 databases from 44 countries today.
A quantity of science (more than 200 million pages from every inhabited continent)
A breakthrough in content enabled by breakthrough technology
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Current WorldWideScience.org Sources• African Journals Online
• Article@INIST (France)
• Australian Antarctic Data Centre
• Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information
• CSIR Research Space (South Africa)
• Defence Research and Development Canada (Canada)
• DEFF Global E Prints (Denmark)
• DEFF Research Database (Denmark)
• Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)
• Electronic Table of Contents (ETOC) (United Kingdom)
• Indian Academy of Sciences
• Indian Institute of Science Eprints
• Indian Institute of Science Theses & Dissertations
Current Information Partners in WorldWideScience.org (cont.)
United States
United Kingdom
SpainSouth Africa
Portugal
The Netherlands
New Zealand
Kenya Lesotho Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
Malawi Mauritius
Nigeria Senegal Sudan Swaziland
Tanzania Togo Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe
Korea
Sweden
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Founding Alliance Members• Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI) –
Canada • VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT) – Finland • Institut de l’Information Scientifique et Technique (INIST) – France• TIB – German National Library of Science and Technology -
Germany• Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) - Japan• Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI) –
Korea • Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) – Argentina, Brazil,
Chile, Colombia, Portugal, Spain • Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) – South Africa• African Journals Online (AJOL) – Representing 24 African countries• British Library – United Kingdom • Science.gov Alliance – United States • International Council for Scientific and Technical Information
(ICSTI) • International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications
(INASP)
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Alliance Executive Board:
• Chair – Richard Boulderstone, British Library• Deputy Chair – Pam Bjornson, Canada Institute for Scientific
and Technical Information• Treasurer – Tae-Sul Seo, Korea Institute of Science and
Technology Information• Ex-Officio Member – Walter Warnick, WorldWideScience.org
Operating Agent, U.S. DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information
• Ex-Officio Member – Herbert Gruttemeier, ICSTI President, French Institut de l’Information Scientifique et Technique
• At-Large Member – Yvonne Halland, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa